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GitHub is now free for teams
Every developer and team can now get private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost with GitHub Free, and we reduced prices for some of our paid plans.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 530 posts.
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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund in a transaction valued at $40 billion.
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Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
We at Pushbullet have received some bad news from Google. It appears our extension will be removed from the Chrome Web Store if we don’t make required changes within 14 days. Not good! The bigger problem? Google hasn’t told us what those required changes are.
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Zoom Acquires Keybase
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Factorio 1.0
Hello, the atmosphere in the last week was kind of special. We experienced the feeling of the final release being on the horizon many times. And we were shown that it isn't the case time and time again. So it feels very special when it is actually becoming reality. We were trying to be especially careful with any last…
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NPM Is Joining GitHub
We're excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub.
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It’s Time to Build
Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. Many of us would like to pin the cause on one…
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
This is a time of change for the internet and for Mozilla. From combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism to protecting individual privacy —
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American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time
Public health and safety would benefit from eliminating daylight saving time, according to a position statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
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ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
After completing extensive due diligence, the ICANN Board found that withholding consent of the transfer of PIR from the Internet Society (ISOC) to Ethos Capital was reasonable, and the right thing to do.
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Mozilla VPN
We are working hard to make the official product, the Mozilla VPN, available in selected regions this year. We will continue to offer the Mozilla VPN at the current pricing model for a limited time, which allows you to protect up to five devices on Windows, Android, and iOS at $4.99/month.
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What's SAP?
What's SAP? And why is it worth $163B?
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How We Saved Dot Org
If you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss.Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it had agreed to sell the Public Interest Registry—the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain (TLD)—to private equity...
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Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
Today we announced we’re joining the Microsoft family...
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YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
Updates to our work supporting the integrity of the 2020 U.S. election.
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Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple
The official blog of the AnyList team.
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Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
Uncover fast-growing tech companies, track venture funds, and access verified founder contacts on one modern platform.
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DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster and SFWA President Mary Robinette Kowal discuss the non-payment by Disney of several contracts for works including multiple Star Wars and Aliens novelizations.
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A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub
DoorDash & GrubHub charge restaurants an advertising fee and then use that money to pay Google to run advertisements that use our restaurant’s brand name to divert customers away from our website to our competitors on their platform. My name is Travis Stoliker and I’m a small restaurant owner in Lansing Michigan. O
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The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
Important update for LTSE Equity customers.
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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
Combination of #1 CRM platform with the most innovative enterprise communications platform will create the operating system for the new way to work,
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Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program
New developer program accelerates innovation and helps small businesses and independent developers propel their businesses forward on the App Store.
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Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
Apple and Google announce a joint effort to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy central to the design.
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I sold Baremetrics
2020 has turned in to one of the most unusual years of my life, for both the obvious reasons but also for reasons I definitely wasn't expecting at the
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Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?
If Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, is silenced, others will also be gagged either directly or by the fear of persecution and prosecution
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The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
A global league table of mobile data costs. The average cost of one gigabyte (1GB) compared from over 5,600 mobile data plans in 237 countries.
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Gitter is joining Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications